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Stupid Questions and n00bs: 10 Intriguing Things You Should Do

Stupid questions and n00bs - top ten intriguing things you need to do from Øredev Conference on Vimeo. It really doesn’t matter how long you’ve been...

0 replies - 2586 views - 05/17/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Links You Don't Want to Miss (May 10)

Java SE - Change in Version Numbering Scheme Oracle is changing the release numbering scheme for scheduled Java SE releases. This is to avoid confusion...

0 replies - 3593 views - 05/10/13 by Allen Coin in Articles

Year Five

The average lifespan for a software engineering job is 4 years. Okay, I've never actually seen proof (or contradiction), but that's the general feeling in the...

0 replies - 2828 views - 05/01/13 by Jay Fields in Articles

Links You Don't Want to Miss (Apr. 30)

The Diploma's Vanishing ValueThis article from The Wall Street Journal challenges the popular belief held among many graduating high schoolers and parents that...

0 replies - 5342 views - 04/30/13 by Allen Coin in Articles

Is the Office Really the Best Place to Get Work Done?

Yahoo’s decision to ban working from home can hardly have escaped anyone’s attention. Whatever the reasons might be, to me their decision sends out a...

0 replies - 6424 views - 04/28/13 by Oscar Berg in Articles

Can You Handle An Elite Performer?

Employers ask for elite performers, but they should be careful – they could get what they ask for… If they find an elite performer, do they have the elite...

0 replies - 7649 views - 04/23/13 by Anders Abel in Articles

The Economics of Developer Recruitment and Training

The PHP jobs market is hot, very many people find it hard to recruit the skilled staff that they need to achieve the goals of their organization. I meet a wide...

1 replies - 2819 views - 04/23/13 by Lorna Mitchell in Articles

The Work From Home Question

Everyone is talking about the Yahoo! memo ending work from home for employees. When a company is in crisis, as Yahoo! is, actions like these, that don’t seem...

1 replies - 6978 views - 04/22/13 by Krishna Kumar in Articles

Code of Conduct for Communities

Lately, there's been a ton of discussion of seriously awful behavior by some dudes at PyCon. People have been fired. People have gotten upset. And there are...

0 replies - 4858 views - 04/22/13 by David Pollak in Articles

How Much Self-management Is Right for a Team?

The  answer is (of course):  ”It depends.” But first, a puzzle: There are lots of teams in small companies and start-ups who are...

0 replies - 3591 views - 04/20/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

Coding for the Changes You'll Have to Make Next Month

One of the most difficult parts of software development is adapting to change. It's a guarantee that the concepts, ideas, and possibly the point of the...

3 replies - 4675 views - 04/17/13 by Isaac Taylor in Articles

Everyone Should Learn To Program, But Not Everyone Should Be A Programmer

The recent free courses from Pluralsight on teaching kids to program really got me thinking about this subject. There seems to be a big backlash in...

1 replies - 3614 views - 04/16/13 by John Sonmez in Articles

Links You Don't Want to Miss: Apr. 11

A Google engineer talks about the logistics of making a mobile site that renders in less than 1 second. 12 Pieces of Required Reading for Recruiting...

0 replies - 3158 views - 04/11/13 by Allen Coin in Articles

DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/8)

John Resig on asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target If you didn’t get the message from our link roundup a few weeks ago when jQuery creator John Resig...

0 replies - 3309 views - 04/07/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Ward Cunningham Joins New Relic

In his prestigious career, Ward Cunningham has worn many hats: inventor of the Wiki, co-creator of Extreme Programming, Code For a Better World Fellow, CTO,...

0 replies - 3886 views - 04/05/13 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles